Wallace Favored as Roosevelt’s Pick for VP in Open Chase
Democrats gather at the convention as fresh contingents arrive to stake their claim in a wide open vice presidential race. E Hannegan James Barnes and Jonathan Daniels join Roosevelt aides with six cabinet officers expected tomorrow. Senator Pepper predicts 12 to 15 candidates with Wallace as the favored choice, while Arnall signals Roosevelt’s possible endorsement.
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Harold Oliver Cago
E. Hannegan
Roosevelt
James M. Barnes
Jonathan Daniels
White House
Filis Arnall
Georgia
Henry A. Wal
Arnall
Atlanta
Wallace
Essen
Reanbert
Hannegan
Washington
Aioe
Henry A. Wallace
Senator Connally
Texas
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Blacktone Hotel
Ickes
Jones
Wickard
Livorno Falls Under American Artillery Range
American forces reached three and a half miles from Livorno as they pressed a advance along a 25 mile front. German positions south of the Arno appeared hopeless while the enemy withdrew toward higher ground north of Pisa across the Arno.
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Noland Norgaard
Rome
Livorno
Leghorn
Arno
Florence
Pisa
Fourteenth Army
Eighth Army
Olmo Pass
Arezzo
Fifth Army
Tropic Storm Near North Carolina Coast Warned By Weather Bureau
Miami reports a tropical storm in the Atlantic increasing in strength and expected to pass near the North Carolina Capes Sunday afternoon. Small craft along the North Carolina coast urged to stay in port as winds near hurricane velocity were observed. The storm center was about 340 miles east of Daytona Beach moving north or slightly northwest at 14 to 16 mph.
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Miami
Fla
Weather Bureau
Atlantic
North Carolina Capes
North Carolina
Daytona Beach
Grady Norton
The
Storm Warning Service
Laul
European War Mood Sees Doom Warnings Amid Open Fronts
The war update notes a somber German broadcast amid ongoing triple fronts and Russian Allied advances. It cites cautious optimism from Montgomery and Eisenhower about German resolve, while warning of possible internal strain and looming changes on the home front.
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Germany
Eisenhower
Moscow
Russia
Berlin
Aviator Gets Life In Prison After Court Martial
Second Lt. Howard E. Stittsworth, 21, Luke Field, convicted of murder for decapitating a motorist in a June 22 plane accident near Wittmann Arizona. Board sentenced him to life with hard labor, subject to review by military and civilian leaders. He remains confined at Luke Field pending review.
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Marana Field
Ariz
Howard E. Stittsworth
Luke Field
Stittsworth
Wakefield
Kans
Wittmann
Earl W. Nepple
Los Angeles
Air Forces Western Training Command
Santa Ana
Calif
Army
Roosevelt
Bombers Strike Japanese Targets as Allies Hit Ceram and New Guinea
Allied fliers respond to enemy broadcasts by attacking Ceram Island and New Guinea targets. MacArthur reports planes from captured airfields sank tanks and set oil fields ablaze while bombers and ships pounded Nipponese troops along the New Guinea coast. Tokyo boasts of executions of Doolittle raiders as Japan touts propaganda.
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Cushing
Boela
Ceram Island
Japan
Bougis MacArthur
New Guinea
Dutch East Indies
MacArthur
Yap
Palau
Singapore
Steel Center
Tokyo
James Doolittle
Front Telegrams Report Soviet Advances Across Niemen Front
Moscow announced Soviet gains along the Niemen line north and south of Alytus with outflanking moves toward Grodno and a new offensive opening in southern Poland. Russians captured Opochna and Kaisiadorys while extending positions toward Daugavpils and Kaunas, placing troops near the Suwalki region.
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Tom Yarbrough
London
Niemen River
Grodno
Pea
Suwalki
East Prussia
Old Poland
Opochna
Aes
Lithuania
Daugavpils
Onikshty
Pichany
Kaunas
Wilno
Alytus
Suwalki Triangle
Burlington Man Shot By Youth In Knoxville
A 17-year-old boy, arrested in St. Louis, said he shot an automobile driver near Knoxville Tennessee on July 1. He claimed he acted while fleeing from Alabama to Baltimore with the victim identified as Otis Madison Sykes of Burlington North Carolina. The car owner was Harold L. Hanford, a Burlington soldier stationed at Camp WainGarten.
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ST. Louis
Thomas E. Whitecotton
Missouri State Highway Patrol
Knoxville
Tenn
Whitecotton
Charles Edward Crews
Fence
Ala
Baltimore
Otis Madison Sykes
Ruffin St
Burlington
N. C
Pfe
Harold L. Hanford
Camp Weingarten
Council declines to enact ban on gathering places
City council in a late night session rejected any restrictions on child movement to curb infantile paralysis. Dr. R A Herring was authorized to state the council’s stance to press and public, urging voluntary parental action over ordinances.
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R. A. Herring
Herring
Groome
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
WPB Opens Aluminum Use For Civilian Goods
The War Production Board under the War Production Act authorizes broad use of aluminum and magnesium in civilian products. Aluminum may substitute for other metals in civilian goods, but output remains within war-time quotas. Restrictions aim to protect arms production. permits possible for noncovered uses upon request. Production will not rapidly restart civilian items as war needs stay first.
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Washington
Donald M. Nelson
WPB
Germany
Japan
Amnesia victim identifies self as missing Wisconsin professor
A Hartford laundry truck driver who forgot most of his life since 1930 identified himself to police as John A. Commons, a former University of Wisconsin economics faculty member, missing since 1924 and legally dead in 1938. He told detectives he had been living in Hartford since last September and planned to visit his father in Fort Lauderdale next week.
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Hartford
Conn
University of Wisconsin
Newspap
Madison
Wis
Milwaukee
Chicago
John A. Commons
John Rogers Commons
Commons
Washington, D. C
Thomas J. Hickey
Paul Beckwith
Hickey
Dr. Commons
Fort Lauderdale
Fla
Roosevelt
Beckwith
Hartford Times
Times
Washington
Anne
Yanks Close On German Coast Anchor Lessay In Normandy
Allied forces push into the outskirts of Lessay on the Cherbourg peninsula threatening a German withdrawal as bombardment and advances press toward St Lo and the Caen region. Ay river crossing reported near Lessay with Periers and St Lo within striking distance amid heavy fighting days after Day.
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Supreme Headquarters
Allied Expeditionary Force
Sune Day
U. S
Lessay
Caen
Noremandy
Colombelles
Cherbourg Peniinsula
Ay River
Periers
Mid - Normandy
St. Lo
Hinge
Second Class Mail Barred To Esquire
A federal district judge upheld Postmaster General Walker in revoking Esquire magazine’s second class mailing. Judge T W Davidson said the action was not arbitrary though not ruled obscene, noting the decision affects imitator publications and could raise annual postage by about 500000 dollars. He commented second class mail includes material of substantial educational literary value and historical context.
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Washington
Walcker
Esquire
Old McGuffey
T. W. Davidson
Dallas
Walker
Cabinet
Davidson
America
Post Office Department
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Govy
Robert S. Kerr
Oklahoma
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N. C. Coast
Europe
Hitler
Montmery
France
Fce
Normandy
Nippon Oil Center
Ceram
Leonard Milliman
Associated Press
Sec
Grondo
Carentan
Signal Corps
Rommel
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